Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage

[mybigwarwagon]

We have about a foot of mud here. No fun.

 

[Strouty]

Mud can be fun, but only when you want to get dirty.

I am at the SG now, unloaded the trailer and grabbed some more burb parts, going to get some dinner, then head home, I am also grabbing a few more tools, I have most of what I need, tough to figure out what I really need until I need it, this is going to be the hazard of having two shops for the time being. The only tools I don't really have duplicates of are the specialty and electrical tools, I know I am not buying more just for this overlap either, will have to setup a tote, so I can haul them back and forth with me.

 

[xtremek]

Sounds like an early night. I'm glad things went decently.

 

[Strouty]

I am going to make one more trip to the Hill, I loaded up a ton of stuff and want to get it out before the snow hits. I also thought I might dump the PTO off Perk so I can take it to the hydraulic place and get the correct flange to mate up a new pump, I can drop it off tomorrow and probably have it back by the end of the week. I think this is worth doing as I am already dirty as can be, smell like diesel, what’s a little more oil?

It is one of the things that have been on my list for weeks and now that Perk is inside I don’t really have any excuse.

 

[harley jim]

Man it sounds like you are really getting things moving.

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[xtremek]

I called it early, so I'm glad you picked up my slack.

 

[Strouty]

Just got the PTO off and cleaned up a bit. It was a *****, open end stubby wrenches only, couldn’t get a socket on the bolts and a couple were really tight. The highlight of my day was at the end of it, I got to wash my hands in hot water before going home. Just need a mirror, I am sure my face is covered, oh well, home for dinner!

 

[harley jim]

Take a selfie

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[Strouty]

Surprisingly, my face was clean, going to bed soon, I hope.

 

[xtremek]

I hope you slept well. I'm off to the barn. Hope I don't drown, been raining buckets for well over an hour.

 

[Strouty]

I ended up hitting the pillow about midnight, slept until almost 7, it appears to have been restful, but I won't know for sure until this afternoon. We've been hit with about 4" of snow so far, trying to judge when it will turn to rain so I can do the cleanup before it becomes a nightmare. Looks like it may be a "later tonight" cleanup, but I do not want 6" of snow to get rained on, that would be downright painful to shovel. The weather guessers are far from accurate these days.

Plan is to take a load of things from the Hill to Dad's shop after I drop off the PTO to the hydraulic shop. I thought about the PTO and pump situation last night, I need to discuss it with them, I have to crank the new transmission into the equation, so they may tell me to wait until I know what PTO is on the automatic before we buy a pump. I know the pump rotates opposite of the manual trans one, biggest issue would be percentages and over or underdrive speeds versus the flow. If anything, I would buy a pump that works fine on the auto, but might be slower on the existing manual trans, the pump will have to be reversed when swapped to the auto, but it is not a big deal.

 

[xtremek]

It just turn to snow here. I hope you get the snow cleared just before the rain. Wet, heavy snow in the rain would probably be the worst. Good Luck.

 

[cbacres]

Strouty, I'm loosing track of everything you have going on

Feels good to stuff accomplished.

 

[Strouty]

X, spent 7 hours clearing snow today, almost all of it is done except a few spots that I was having trouble with due to the darkness. The new plow truck has a really tall blade, so tall when you lift it up in scoop mode (which I am almost always in) you lose almost complete block the headlights. The snow isn’t over yet, may get another few inches then around 1 am it is supposed to start turning, then it will probably end all rain. I remember another recent winter like this, they ****, you never get a good snow pack so plowing is horrible unless you are on pavement.

The PTO is so old they can’t get parts for the thing, so I have to try and get the old shaft back from the guy I gave the boom to, hopefully he still has it, if not, it is going to cost another $250 for a shaft. Stinks because it is all temporary, the only good thing is that the new pump will be usable on the automatic trans with minimal effort. I won’t be able to confirm the trans info until Thursday, pretty excited about that.

 

[pi_guy]

X, spent 7 hours clearing snow today, almost all of it is done except a few spots that I was having trouble with due to the darkness. The new plow truck has a really tall blade, so tall when you lift it up in scoop mode (which I am almost always in) you lose almost complete block the headlights. The snow isn’t over yet, may get another few inches then around 1 am it is supposed to start turning, then it will probably end all rain. I remember another recent winter like this, they ****, you never get a good snow pack so plowing is horrible unless you are on pavement.

Snowing here at 9pm nice big flakes. We wet through rain and freezing rain then sleet then snow. Had a little clearing about 4 then rain and it changed back to snow.
The summit was closed, the heated bubble lifts iced up and had to be shut down. Think we had 6 to 8 at the base sure we had more on the hill.

 

[Strouty]

Snow stopped at about 3:30 at the house, I cleared everything out before the rain, then headed to SG, just getting done with that now, headed to the Hill to clean that up. Total is 12” or better, went from nothing to this:




Supposed to get up to 40 today and rain most of the day. Go figure.

 

[Strouty]

Snow didn’t stop at the Hill, almost another 12” on top of the 6” I plowed yesterday. Almost done, then going home to go to sleep for a while.

 

[PelicanPines]

You must LOVE snow... I only like it...

 

[pi_guy]

You must LOVE snow... I only like it...

Based on comments from Strouty he really does not love it or like it.

Me on the other hand loves it during ski racing season and it is really useful at Mt Hood in July. Other times and places not so much.

 

[xtremek]

I warned you that you were going to get hit. Sorry I was right. And the rain doesn't surprise me. We've go about 2"-3" of fluffy powder last night, and it's currently coming down in light flurries. Not worth plowing. Good thing most of your vehicles have multi axle drive. Let the mud fly.

 

[Strouty]

Still haven’t officially gone to bed, I will say that no matter what I am done shoveling snow for the rest of this year.

 

[harley jim]

I hate snow so much I quit my job and moved 700 miles south. I really hate snow!

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[86turbodsl]

Man that really sounds good Harley Jim.

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[Strouty]

I would have to quit my girl, she refuses to move. my solution is to setup OMO and travel one week every month buying cool ****.

 

[pi_guy]

Man that really sounds good Harley Jim.

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86 Are you near any of the ski hills in Michigan?

Thinking of coming out there for a ski race event last weekend in Feb.

 

[86turbodsl]

Nope. Pretty flat here.

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[harley jim]

I worked for the town where I lived during the winter it was double shifts all week at least one or two on the weekend. I remember plowing past my house on Christmas blowing the air horn at my kids and them waving at me from the window. Strouty you start doing that travel thing let me know and dinner is on me. I got a place down 64 past the house that dose real cajun food and another down a little further that dose all you can eat catfish on Friday.

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[Bob Heine]

Strouty, I know you hate hot weather almost as much as snow but there are two ways to find the perfect location. One is to put a snow shovel in your vehicle and head south. Every time you stop to eat or fill up, take the shovel with you. When someone asks "What's that?" you have gone far enough. The other is to look for signs. You're OK if the signs say "Spanish Spoken Here" but you've gone too far if they say "English Spoken Here."

 

[harley jim]

Bob that's what I did. When I got out in Chattanooga they asked what was I doing with the chicken litter shovel

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[mybigwarwagon]

Bob that's what I did. When I got out in Chattanooga they asked what was I doing with the chicken litter shovel

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Also known as a shop dust pan.

 

[Strouty]

Sorry guys, I have been slacking, I haven’t posted anything since last year.

For me it is humidity that I hate more than the heat. Realistically once the dust settles and I actually have a legal contract for the house and shops on the Hill, I will be fine. I think my biggest issue is that I need a snowblower at each location, or an easy way to transport the one I have. That would stop 90% of all the shoveling I have to do. The traveling should fix my want to move, it will also fix my hatred of rusty vehicles.

 

[jakemac]

For moving a snowblower, I went to Harbor Freight and picked up the Scooter/Wheelchair cargo carrier they have. The one with the ramp. I stick it into the tow hitch and strap the snowblower down.

My snowblower is 28” wide. The carrier wasn’t wide enough, so I rebuilt the rails with spacers and reinforced the plastic corners to make it wide enough. The snowblower is a bit heavy, so I add ratchet straps to help support it.

I did that for for 9yrs, until I finally bought a 2nd snowblower for my grandmother’s house. (a $65 used snowblower cost me $330 in parts when the auger ate itself the first time I used it this year.)

Now I use the carrier to take my brush mower up north in the summer. It saves me money on tolls since I don’t have to pull a trailer.

Surprisingly, the HF carrier is a good deal. It’s held up well, given how much weight I had on it. The only thing that broke is one of the aluminum brackets that hold the ramp up. Bungee Balls fixed that.

https://www.harborfreight.com/alum...arrier-67599.html?_br_psugg_q=scooter+carrier




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[xtremek]

86 Are you near any of the ski hills in Michigan?

Thinking of coming out there for a ski race event last weekend in Feb.

Boyne? We're about 3 hours south.

Strouty, I'd rather shovel than use a blower, even with my old back. Using a snowblower looks too darn cold.

 

[bimmer1980]

Happy New year guys!!

I bought a smaller "snow thrower" walk behind machine that I use for small amounts of snow. It works well for the sidewalks and the driveway when I don't want to use the skid steer.

For anything over 2", I will use the New Holland LS150 skid steer with the 6' bucket. I made a HDPE cutting edge for it to prevent ripping up my new asphalt driveway. It makes the bucket glide along nicely.

Here's to a productive and satisfying shop progress in the new year!

 

[harley jim]

Sorry guys, I have been slacking, I haven’t posted anything since last year.

For me it is humidity that I hate more than the heat. Realistically once the dust settles and I actually have a legal contract for the house and shops on the Hill, I will be fine. I think my biggest issue is that I need a snowblower at each location, or an easy way to transport the one I have. That would stop 90% of all the shoveling I have to do. The traveling should fix my want to move, it will also fix my hatred of rusty vehicles.

Glad you made it back, long time.
It is humid here, most of last summer was in the 100s at about 75 percent humidity. I kind of like it, for some reason it helps my arthritis. I stay in the sun too much but it's hard not to.
I agree that once you get settled in after all the legality is behind you and make it your own place it will be nice.
I'm really excited to see you finish a truck it will spur a desire to complete more. I started sorting my projects last year and sold some of them(my corvettes, and a couple of trucks and my 50 shoebox) scrapped a couple then started a plan to finish what was left. And I have finished a bunch of them. Lots less stress making decisions that way. Now I spend all my free time searching for lista cabinets.

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[Strouty]

I agree slimming my project list down will help with stress, the best thing is that a lot of my projects require parts of multiple vehicles, so as they are finished, lots of extra **** will go away too. Perk will be using parts from the FL106 and the Boston E-one fire truck, that should make two trucks disappear. I will be ordering the engine stand adapter for the Detroit engine later this week, just need to confirm it will work with the 50 Series engine.

Today my GF and I are doing some shopping and having lunch at a favorite place, problem is it is a 2 hour ride to get there. She loves to hit a few of the charity based stores, I used to love to hit my favorite surplus store, found out yesterday that they are closed to regular retail and only do eBay sales now, that was a big hit, I loved that store.

I did however find this great glass...

 

[Strouty]

Jake, I happened to go to a harbor freight today, those carriers are pretty impressive for the price. I was thinking about making one out of aluminum myself, I think it would be a fun project, I guess if I don’t make one by February, I will go and buy the HF one and just get it over with. I also took a look at the transmission jacks they sell, seem to be decent enough, I was going to modify another jack to make it work, not sure on that yet, but I know I will be needing a jack that can lift some heavy transmissions.

 

[Maineiacmoose]

I agree slimming my project list down will help with stress, the best thing is that a lot of my projects require parts of multiple vehicles, so as they are finished, lots of extra **** will go away too. Perk will be using parts from the FL106 and the Boston E-one fire truck, that should make two trucks disappear. I will be ordering the engine stand adapter for the Detroit engine later this week, just need to confirm it will work with the 50 Series engine.

Today my GF and I are doing some shopping and having lunch at a favorite place, problem is it is a 2 hour ride to get there. She loves to hit a few of the charity based stores, I used to love to hit my favorite surplus store, found out yesterday that they are closed to regular retail and only do eBay sales now, that was a big hit, I loved that store.

I did however find this great glass...

That is a great shop glass! lol

Going south and find a nice rust free rig is the answer. I would love to be able to pull just one bolt without a fight just once!

 

[Strouty]

I don’t even care if they fight, I am just tired of rust falling in my face the entire time I am under something.

 

[jakemac]

If you do make a carrier, use steel for the receiver bar underneath. Everything else, but the bolts and pins, is aluminum stock.

Buying the HF version might be cheaper than buying the materials and spending the time to make one.


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